[outages] ICQ: Blocking third-party clients

[Jay R. Ashworth]

According to an ICQ.com forum thread, linked to by Slashdot, ICQ has
reportedly started blocking third-party chat clients, such as pidgin.

Users receive a message telling them their "client version is too old".

No further to date.

	http://www.icq.com/forums/index.php?act=view_topic&group_id=400&topic_id=176034&forum_page=1
	http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/02/1331224&from=rss

Cheers,
-- jra
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